The April 2023 Record Spin Challenge: "Want to go around again? I do."

April 14 - First Job. Either play the album you first bought with your own money, or an album that reminds you of your first job.

My first job was working in a travel agency; I was a nepo baby and got the job because of my mother when I was about 14 or so. Having a hard time selecting an album that reminds me of that place, but am settling on Elbow - The Take Off and Landing of Everything because I worked at a place that helped people make flight arrangements!

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April 10 - Be Kind To Your Inner Child. Play the album you would give to yourself as a child or that you want to share with your child.

Czarface – Czar Noir
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Younger me would have lost his mind to this blending of hip hop and comic books. Especially the homage here to the original appearance of Spider-Man's black suit waaaaay back in Secret Wars #8. As a bonus, this one's an instrumental so my mom wouldn't lose her shit over the swearing!
 
Yer Ol' Uncle D said:
April 15 - First Car. Either play an album that mentions cars/transportation, or an album you would blast when driving your first car.

My first car was a 1967 Mustang Convertible.

I still own it.



Swervedriver - Raise

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My favorite car. I had a 68 that I had to sell to help pay for college, then a 96 GT. Would love to get a classic again.
 
April 15 - First Car. Either play an album that mentions cars/transportation, or an album you would blast when driving your first car.

My first car was by no means a Red Barchetta (it was a piece of shit Oldsmobile, literally brown) but this is what I blared as loud as the crap factory installed cassette player would allow.

ETA: My parents each had a 65 1/2 Mustang... I vaguely recall seeing photos of my mom's light blue one, but have only heard stories about my dad's, which was dark blue. I'm guessing I came home from the hospital in one of them as I was born not too long after then.

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Day 14: April 14 - First Job. Either play the album you first bought with your own money, or an album that reminds you of your first job.

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
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I was a nepo baby. My Mom was an Advertising Executive at my small local hometown newspaper The Daily Leader and even though I was a year younger than they typically allowed I became a paperboy at 10 years old. I delivered papers until I graduated high school as it was an easy and convenient way to earn a bit of spending money. It also didn’t interfere with after school sports practices which was a big bonus. When I first started I was on an afternoon route and would ride my Huffy around the neighbor slinging papers in the proximity of customers front porch. One of the things that was essential was having a good cassette tape mix going while I was delivering papers. By 5th grade I would have my own CD boombox but wouldn’t get my first discman until high school so I had to make mix tapes during those first few years.

Anyways, My mom worked in a bigger city about 35 miles southwest of where I grew up which was a blessing because she could swing by the Best Buy and would pick me up pretty much whatever CD I gave her money to buy for me. The amazing part was she really never investigated what the albums I was requesting were, even with album title “Doggystyle” or “The Chronic”, which was a bit odd considering how much she hated things like Beavis & Butt-Head; regardless her lack of curiosity meant I had many explicit parental advisory stickers in my CD collection and listened to plenty of Snoop Dee Oh Double Gee while slinging newsprint.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Day 14: April 14 - First Job. Either play the album you first bought with your own money, or an album that reminds you of your first job.

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
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I was a nepo baby. My Mom was an Advertising Executive at my small local hometown newspaper The Daily Leader and even though I was a year younger than they typically allowed I became a paperboy at 10 years old. I delivered papers until I graduated high school as it was an easy and convenient way to earn a bit of spending money. It also didn’t interfere with after school sports practices which was a big bonus. When I first started I was on an afternoon route and would ride my Huffy around the neighbor slinging papers in the proximity of customers front porch. One of the things that was essential was having a good cassette tape mix going while I was delivering papers. By 5th grade I would have my own CD boombox but wouldn’t get my first discman until high school so I had to make mix tapes during those first few years.

Anyways, My mom worked in a bigger city about 35 miles southwest of where I grew up which was a blessing because she could swing by the Best Buy and would pick me up pretty much whatever CD I gave her money to buy for me. The amazing part was she really never investigated what the albums I was requesting were, even with album title “Doggystyle” or “The Chronic”, which was a bit odd considering how much she hated things like Beavis & Butt-Head; regardless her lack of curiosity meant I had many explicit parental advisory stickers in my CD collection and listened to plenty of Snoop Dee Oh Double Gee while slinging newsprint.
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“So cute that Charlie Brown’s dog has his own CD! And a doctor talking what I’m assuming is about chronic disease? Sure, I’ll go and buy these for you.”
 
April 14 - First Job. Either play the album you first bought with your own money, or an album that reminds you of your first job

Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview
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Technically my first job was as a lifeguard for a pool during aquatic aerobics, so I would have chosen Olivia Newton-John’s Physical because that’s the kind of stuff they’d play, but I don’t have that. I worked at the local McDonald’s a bit later in high school, where all my best friends worked nights and it was always a blast. We’d lock up after the last customer left and through the restaurant speakers they’d throw this album on (someone had figured out a way to connect their CD player to bypass the muzak that played all day) and we’d mop and de-grease the shit out of that place

 
April 14 - First Job. Either play the album you first bought with your own money, or an album that reminds you of your first job.

The Power Station "The Power Station 331/3" (1985 Capitol)
I'm trying to think back at the first album I bought, and I think it's this, or this was really close. It was pretty much all about buying 45 singles for me before. And most of the albums I listened to were cassettes I would dub from friends. I remember playing the hell out of Huey Lewis's Sports prior to owning The Power Station, but that was a dubbed cassette. I would also go borrow albums from the city library - that's something you could do during those days - I pretty much kept borrowing out Rio and Born in the USA that way. So I think one of the first albums I owned an original copy of was The Power Station. My first copy of this album would have been on cassette - this is an original US pressing I found a few years ago.

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April 15 - First Car. Either play an album that mentions cars/transportation, or an album you would blast when driving your first car.

Two stories here. The first car I totaled was my parents Datsun B210. I had only been driving a few months and rear ended someone on the 101 in Los Angeles. A few weeks after this I left to go on tour with Drum Corps and when I returned at the end of summer my dad (who had a great sense of humor) had suspended the bumper and fender of the car above my bed.

After that though, I got my first real car - A Ford Pinto wagon with wood paneling. That was a great car, and I drove it into the ground. Along with various mixtapes I spent a lot of time with this cassette in the car for sure - my high school friends and I went through a serious Moody Blues phase.

I haven't listened to this in ages. Given all this reminiscing the initial lyrics are very appropriate.

Won't you take me back to school?
I need to learn the Golden Rule
Won't you lay it on the line?
I need to hear it just one more time

As far as Mustangs go, one of our current rides is a 2015 Mustang Ecoboost convertible. Would love to get a classic one as well.

The Moody Blues ~ Long Distance Voyager

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April 15 - First Car. Either play an album that mentions cars/transportation, or an album you would blast when driving your first car

A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement

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My grandma sold me her ‘89 Pontiac Grand Am for $500 and it had stock speakers that were better than a lot of my classmates’ upgrades. I bought this CD at Fred Meyer during lunch on its release date when I was in high school and put it in the Discman that was connected to a cassette adapter and it was so loud that I thought the bass blew out my speakers permanently
 
Day 15: April 15 - First Car. Either play an album that mentions cars/transportation, or an album you would blast when driving your first car.

Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
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The first car I owned was a beater my Mom gave me, a white 1989 Mercury Topaz with automatic seatbelt but no tape deck let alone a CD player. By the time I inherited it in the late 90s it had have 289,000 miles on it. I drove it until 2000 when the front axil randomly snapped (while I was driving). I needed a replacement car and a buddy was getting a new car so I purchased his Maroon 1991 Ford Tempo for $500 (for those unfamiliar, The Tempo is the exact same care as the Topaz just with a Ford emblem on the grill instead of the Mercury ornament) it still had automatic seatbelts but it had one major upgrade, an aftermarket CD Player, one of the ones with the removable faceplate; I was stoked! For the few years I had that car before one of the engine cylinders seized I would cruise around Peoria IL listening to mostly burned CD mixes but I still had a few CDs and Malkmus self titled debut got a ton of play.
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April 12 - First Loves. Play an album that you would want to be playing in the background if you could fall in love (even if unreciprocated) for the first time as a teenager all over again.

I was stumped on this, then my wife said 'do we have any Peter Cetera Chicago?'

This will have to do...

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